The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-20

ton than he found them -= There will
be no preaching service at the Methodist
church next Sunday.
East Corinth.
JACKMAN's dry-house was burned last
week Wednesday. Loss $500. 80 Charles
Kemp and Alfred Jackman returned to ST.
Johnsbury last Monday, where they are to
attend school.
West Randolph.
THROUGH the efforts of w. b. Wall and
Hon. w. III. Dubois mail will be taken
from this place on the fast express going
south at /: 40 and on the cyclone at &: 10
o'clock. - Fifteen dollars were cleared
by the ladies of the Christian society at
their sugar party. == There were 1--WE
hundred ifty-four different guests at the
Red Lion Inn during the month of March,
- Mount Zion Commandery, knights
Templar, of Montpelier will parade with
our Grand Army Post here Decoration day.
- Mrs. +. p. Morse has been quite i'll
of late. - Ed. Blodgett will work for
M. b. Gaylord in Brookfeld this season.
80 Mrs. Mary DANA Miles has been
visiting in West Braintree. A Mr..
Phelps from East Bethel has moved to the
Center - Irving Litchield is now clerk
ing for II. NJ. Wires, and a young man from
Greensboro is clerking for Charles Thurs
ton. =- The Methodist society held an
oyster supper this week Tuesday evening.
Music was furnished by Mechanics band.
j. G. Mann has put into his store
a shirt and collar case. II is of ash, with
glass front. - The Burlington clothing
store will remain here through the summer
80 Henry Newton and daughter have
recovered 49, Kate Guptil is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Herbert Flint, in Springfield.
Mass. - The Mechanics Benefit and
Relief Association, formed by the employees
of the furniture factory, last week elected
the following officers: President, Charles
Putnam; president G.. b. Pratt: secre-
tary and treasurer, Wales Bass; committee,
Nj. NJ. Drake, ID. l.. Chatfeld and w. II.
Curtis. No regular assessments are laid on
the members, but in case one is sick or I'M
able to work each member pays twenty
cents per week for ten weeks, if necessary.
The association has thirty members. -
1t is expected the last entertainment in the
free reading-room lecture course will oc-
cur about the LIST of May. - j. ID. Mitch
ell and Miss Minnie Brooks We're in Boston
on business last week go A benefit
dance for the baseball club will soon be
announced - West Randolph has been
in darkness for some time, owing TO gaso-
line being exhausted, 80 w b. Wall
was in Boston last week on business. -
ID. G. Woodward is going on the road selling
goods for a firm in Cleveland, Ohio. -
Eva Fowler is learning bookkeeping,
shorthand etc, in Boston. - Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Briggs buried their little son
one week ago last Sunday. - Mr.. Ans
den has rented a farm in Williamstown.
- Luke Parish and wife visited in New
York recently. 60 Services will hereafter
be held Sunday morning in the Episcopal
church and in the afternoon at the Center
60 That poppy in Wheeler's clothing
store was recently opened and contained
1886 seeds c. H. Priest guessed the near
est, 5,40O and received the barrel of granu-
lated sugar. Some guessed as low as thirty
six. - w. S. Howard has hired his
fathers farm for one year. - |. ID.
Williams and Heber Holman of Braintree
have been awarded the contract for hauling
the iron pipe from the depot along the line
of the public water-works. - Hereafter
the waiting-room in the post-ofce will be
open from seven A. NJ. to nine P. NJ, and
nearly all day Sunday. - At the recent
sugar-party given by the Grand Army boys
SIS were realized. 60 -Four persons were
received into the Methodist church one
week ago last Sunday.
STAFFORD.
Mr.. JAMES NJ. SoULE died April 10 of
dropsy. He was born in Woodstock March
IL, 1920. He had been a resident of the
town of Stanford for about forty years. He
was widely known by the travelling public
as a hotel-keeper and was member of the
present legislature.
North Thetford.
REV. Mr.. REYNOLDS preached his fare
well sermon a week ago. He has done
good work here, especially among the
young. We wish him the best this life af-
fords wherever he may go. == Mrs. Mary
Silver, who has been quite i'll for the past
two weeks, was taken to Oxford Tuesday,
where her only son resides. - Miss Alice
Berry has returned to her school in Cam
bridgeport. 80 But very little sugar has
been made in this vicinity up to date -
Miss Addie Morey is working for Mark
Ware at the Bow, Mrs. Ware being ill., -=
Mrs. Lewis Ladd is seriously i'll. 60 w.
e. and F. c. Earle were home last week for
a short visit. 80 George Howe arrived
here from Colorado last week. He will
make a short stay and then return to his
home in the West.
Tunbridge.
HENRY ALEXANDER is quite ill.,
Bert Badgers rubbers were stolen Saturday
evening. - A Mr.. Bennett is here get
ting material for the Orange County Gaz-
etteer = Maple sugar is selling for eight
cents per pound. 80 Sabin, the youngest
son of S. i. Durkee, died the 18th instant
of typhoid pneumonia, - DR.. f. J. Fish
intends moving to South Royalton soon
- Mrs. Sally Smith celebrated her
seventy-eighth birthday with "A party Mon
day of last week. - Grant Corwin has
gone to Fitchburgh, Mass. - Adrian
Moody, who left here the first of last week
10 WISH Il DrOtner Ill Derry, n. H., uleu at
his brothers house Wednesday. His re-
mains were brought here for burial. 60
Sap ran very freely few days last week
- The mails have been very late for
some days. 80 Gay Brothers are ship
ping about six cases of their cloth every
week TO New York - Charley Corliss
is at home.
Williamstown.
Jason JOHNSON recently collected about
S35 from our citizens TO aid George W.
Farnham, who has been an invalid more
than three years There are doubtless many
whom Mr.. johnson failed to see who have
the heart and means TO assist one so afflicted
as Mr. Farnham has been, and is, and if one
has not money that he can give there are
other things that may be most helpful in a
family. 1t is to he hoped that there are yet
many more to rejoice this sick mans heart
and to carry away greater blessing for
themselves through ministering to his needs.
Let them not wait for IA solicitor, but, far
better, go themselves with their gifts. 60
The other day Calvin Holt living just
across the line, in southeast Barre, showed
us "a handsome lot of Plymouth fowls and a
few equally nice-looking Wyandottes. Last
year he built house specially for them,
and we should judge at no great expense,
He finds the cost of keeping them much less
with such house. During some part of the
winter he kept an account of the outgo and
income of this flock of fowls, to find the latter
handsomely larger than the former. -
Forrest Seaver was recently elected school
committee in the Rodney Seaver district.
ford, last week, to attend the funeral of the
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